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Total number of records: 4401

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Heath, Ambrose (1891-1969)60
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An anonymous recipe book, including some recipes from Surrey and Yorkshire
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An anonymous recipe book, including some recipes from Surrey and Yorkshire

c.1800

Also known as:Recipe book Sources of recipes include: Mrs Page of Streatham and Sheen (ff.6r, 7v, 12r, 15r, and 17v); Mrs Brooksbank of Yorkshire and 'Healaugh' [presumably Philippa Brooksbank (d.184...

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English cookery books from 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John Preston
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English cookery books from 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John Preston

Preston, John F

c. 1962?

Contains detailed bibliographical descriptions of selected items

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English cookery books, 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John F. Preston
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English cookery books, 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John F. Preston

Preston, John F

c. 1962

The bibliography takes the form of a synoptic list of some 1,500 items, for the most part arranged chronologically. Also present are "Contents of case no. 1"; a handlist of the John F. Preston cookery...

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Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby
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Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby

Darby, Dorothy

c.1800

Watermark, 'R. Glover 1798', ff. 1 and 2. Inscriptions: front paste-down, 'Dorothy Darby's Cyphering Book'; back paste-down, 'Dorothy Darby, Hadley Green, near Barnet, Middlesex'. Folios bearing her '...

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1837-1857

A collection of recipes (pp.7-71), and extracts from the Bible (pp.262-76)

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Recipe book, compiled by Mrs R.A. Aldred
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Recipe book, compiled by Mrs R.A. Aldred

Aldred, R A

c.1900

A collection of cookery recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

Nine cookery recipes, followed by 35 blank pages. Contents note on front cover by Mrs Blanche Leigh

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The essential Mosimann

Mosimann, Anton; Daneff, Tiffany

1993

Includes index.

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My learn-to-cook book

Sedgwick, Ursula; Mayhew, Martin

[1967]

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Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project
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Old cookery books and ancient cuisine

Hazlitt, William Carew (1834-1913)

1886

Includes index.

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